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My first feature film, Nanny, officially has a poster:
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“It sucks that whenever we...guys that look like me.. make anything that is genre bending...they put us in the rap or urban category, and I don’t like that urban word. It’s just a politically correct way to say the N-word to me...”
This is how you use a win to educate.
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Racism is racism'ing so hard, I almost forgot about the pandemic.
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We all deserve oscars for our stunning performances as high functioning humans in a crumbling society.
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We literally can't afford our own existence.
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I hate how everyone is acting like they just discovered Black people.
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Ya'll are gonna eat all your quarantine snacks in one night.
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This Karen euphemism has gotten out of hand.
These women are nurses, teachers, police, realtors, food handlers...
First and Last Name+Place of Employment, nothing less.
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All of us tweeting from our personal and collective hell.
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Are you procrastinating or just burnt out…in a collapsing empire…in a pandemic?
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This is the most romantic thing I've ever seen in my life.
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Don't fall for your job calling you "family" then treating you like a disposable can of fruit cocktail.
Issa trap to get lonely dedicated individuals to feel disproportionately invested in a system that overworks, underpays and replaces you as soon as you get sick.
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I just keep waiting for Americans to understand what ASYMPTOMATIC means.
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Love the woman Rihanna is becoming publicly, in spite of entering this industry as an impressionable, vulnerable teen at the mercy of men who tried to stamp out her light.
Her 30 something confident awareness is palpable. I stan hard.✨
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Nothing good usually precedes nor follows “females”...
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A toxic work environment is more likely to change you than you are to change it.
Get out.
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We needed some good news during these dark times. 🙏🏾
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Sometimes you stumble across an image that speaks to your soul:
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I'm uncomfortable with that picture of the deflated, exhausted Popeye's worker being used as a meme.
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I do not take the high road for people who want me dead.
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...the same way black parents have been doing as soon as their child can comprehend full sentences.
So how do you explain to children that in the one rare time police could be useful they can’t depend on them?
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Every single person who is good at this app has ADHD.
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I think about this video often. I hope the baby has a spectacular weekend.
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Other adults who were neither raised nor nurtured.
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If you understand how frequently people cope by projecting, you would learn to take absolutely nothing personally.
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:Travels internationally:
"Isn't that your Preside-"
Me:
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@OrangePaulp
Gen Z possesses a special brand of mean. An 11th grader I was trying to discipline said to me “you don’t make enough money to be going back and forth with me.” She was absolutely right.
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“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.”
Ms. Maya Angelou, the older I get the more I fully understand this.
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Capitalism wants you to feel guilty for resting.
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This is what Black children should be doing instead of being lauded for protesting the validity of their own lives. ♥️
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Respectability politics will always prioritize the deceptive, grotesque veneer of civility over the glacier of bloodshed we are all expected to ignore.
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Currently infatuated with and inspired by Baltimore artist Murjoni Merriweather’s otherworldly clay sculptures…
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The comments are disturbing. Pple losing themselves in vapidly symbolic story weaving.
Black children and adults do not exist for spectacle. We shouldn't have to live in a world where forced profundity of imagery moves you more than the real life Black lives you ignore.
A Marine holds the door as Gianna Floyd, the daughter of George Floyd, walks into the White House.
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Not sure who needs to read this but: today is:
Wednesday.
April 22nd.
Year: 2020.
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Overwhelmingly, white men won't grasp their very presence is political. Hollow demands to "leave politics out of it!" is a luxury afforded to them precisely b/c they crafted the inhumane politics murdering the rest of us, leaving most of them unscathed.
If that ain't political.
“If you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your God and f— off.” Host
@rickygervais
calls for no politics at the
#GoldenGlobes
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Everything is about race.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise,
especially the folks who made everything about race in the first place.
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Is she "difficult" or is she inhabiting a body you are not accustomed to taking orders from?
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"Ella's asthma attacks coincided with years of air pollution levels near her home that were above the legal limit."
Blacks and Hispanics are disproportionately effected by air pollution though we are not the main contributors to pollution.
London schoolgirl could become first person to have "air pollution" listed as cause of death in the UK
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Remember: a toxic workplace is more likely to change you than you are likely to change a toxic workplace.
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"Black people in Horror" is very different from Black Horror.
This is Black Horror.
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Me deciding if I'm going to use my anxiety coins on racism, misogyny or covid-19 today...
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Can't shake this image.
Photographer James P. Blair, Untitled, Haiti, 1987.
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@scamlikelyday
"Here I come walking down the street and I actually see my car--in a house."
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Tracee Ellis Ross is one of the few women who make me feel gratitude that I'm able to age gracefully, untethered, free, without feeling insufficient.
Women like her CHOOSE partners because they complement her rich, dynamic life not because they complete it.
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No one tells you mastering boundaries is the greatest adulthood hack to having some semblance of peace.
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Someone mentioned that Black Women's depression can often be misread as anger (in turn garnering us less support)and I truly felt that.
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"I am not the target audience for this."
8 words. 11 syllables.
More cishet white male film critics, in particular, should practice articulating these words in front of a mirror.
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I’ve learned that people have very little compassion for you when you make back breaking labor look effortless.
Zora was on to something when she said “ if you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
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"She was the first Black woman to star in a non-servant role on television" re: Julia.
May she truly rest.
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I’m going to start responding to “Why are you single?” with “Why did your partner settle?”
Same energy.
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I now understand adulthood is about how you consistently manage a relentlessly breaking heart.
We’ve lost so much.
May everyone continue to rest in peace & flourish on the other side.
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Michaela Coel said no to Netflix putting 1 mill on the table and fired her agency when she learned she wouldn't be able to "retain any percentage of her copyright" for a show SHE CREATED.
Ask questions. This industry thrives on desperation. Creativity is your gift. Protect it.
the fact that michaela didn’t take IMDY during the netflix gold rush tells you everything about how she approached the business side of tv
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Pray for me.
My back is broken from trying to carry these dull conversations with men...who pursue me with nothing to say.
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I struggle to "trust the process" because I do not trust the people who created and uphold said process.
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The geriatric millennial urge to screenshot, just in case...
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Go where you are seen.
Go where you are wanted.
Go where you are nurtured.
Go where you are loved loudly rather than in whispers...
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The fact that not a single white body has to be present for white supremacy to maintain itself isn't common knowledge is absolutely tragic and by design.
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Always searching for this affirmation. Always in need of this reminder.
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Is someone holding all these people at gunpoint to confess they don't wash themselves?
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embezzle?
Embezzle?
EMBEZZO?
EMBEZZOO?!
EMBEZEWWWW?!
talkin bout embezzo money...
EMBYEZZZUUUL?
-rupi kaur
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Currently being held hostage by A.J Hamilton’s photography
(IG: thetogfather)
“Inspired by classical art and narratives of mythology, Hamilton mixes themes of religion, surrealism and the mystic of the female form”
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Please continue to post the profound things your therapists say so I can continue to vicariously be in therapy.
Thankyousomuch.
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I hope folks are connecting the dots of the brazennes of racists caught on video + the gravity of the potential for their racism to harm on the job. So far Twitter has outed kindergarten teachers, financiers, retired police--the list is long.
Imagine how tired we are.
#BREAKING
: Sources say Florida man harassing 15-year-old black girl in viral video is Lee Jeffers, U.S. Department of Homeland Security employee at
@USCIS
Citizenship and Immigration Services in West Palm Beach.
@USCISMediaSouth
is preparing a statement... You Gonna Lose yo Job!
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How many of us had to maneuver this until we figured out they were micro-agressions that didn't even deserve our presence. Been checking out since middle school.
Naw, she really tried to play sis on the cool and sis peeped lol
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Please stop giving cute clever nicknames to these White Women calling the police on us.
We're diluting the gravity of the situation.
These Women are attempted murderers.
Bodega Betty wants you dead, Jamal.
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Universities looking for their 3 Black Professors to serve on the anti racism committee:
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We have literally been conditioned to have zero imagination beyond the confines of the current systems we are crushed by.
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We joke about ghosting but it can't be good for our collective mental health to normalize both the act of impulsive disappearing and the acceptance that we are all disposable intangibles.
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Being perceived as "strong" is overrated. Do not recommend. 0 stars.
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Kyrsten Sinema reminds me of eclectic white/white proximal women with multicolored hair who gentrify urban enclaves to make 6 figures heading up non profits with no intention of actually serving the communities whose oppression pays for their closet full of lululemon leggings.
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The world is falling apart and I'm still responding to emails.
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If more people admitted nepotism fueled their success in [any] industry more of us would understand our little triumphs in penetrating spaces neither for us nor by us are not so little but quite worthy of celebration.
You're making it purely on heart, talent and grit kid.
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"Anger is our friend. Not a nice friend. Not a gentle friend. But a very, very loyal friend. It will always tell us when we have been betrayed. It will always tell us when we have betrayed ourselves."
– Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way
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It's really a shame that Vice and its staff choose to frame this narrative primarily around "banning White people" and "escaping White people" as opposed to centering Black Women seeking self care and safety among each other in a world that is very hostile.
This is what it's like to take a vacation away from white people.
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Singing both parts of "the boy is mine" in naive childhood before you understood he simply belongs to the streets >>>
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Occasionally falling out of love with your craft is par for the course when you become disillusioned by the commodification of your Art.
Hold on tightly to the work that inspires you, the pieces that remind you why your desire to create was ignited in the first place.
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Some news: I just got staffed on a series! My team closed the offer yesterday.
Starting my first writer's room on Monday. 🥴
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When the childless convo surfaces, I sometimes just want to blurt out: "I am not strong enough to have my heart exist outside of my body", and leave it at that.
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Octavia Butler said she's not 'prescient' or 'psychic' or 'clairvoyant'.
She just reads books and pays attention to humans constantly repeating history, and I felt that.
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Finding a cishet male partner who doesn't want to knock you down a few pegs or compete with you is trickier than a lot of talented women artists unapologetically pursuing their paths are willing to discuss...
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Recent shows are teaching audiences more Black History than some of us received in our entire academic lives.
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There's no shortage of talent in this world--there's a shortage of access.
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“Rarely, if ever, does an empathic response begin with AT LEAST…one of the things we do sometimes in the face of very difficult conversations is we try to make things better. The truth is rarely can a response make something better. What makes something better is connection."
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Can't show your parents anything funny on Twitter. They always want to know "Who is that?"--A stranger Mommy, but that's not the point...
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I block people who say "this isn't about race."
You and your ancestors benefitted from making everything about race then gaslit us when we pointed it out.
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The problem with appearing so self sufficient and put together is that people don't think you need help.
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"Don't touch me." (monkeypox)
"Don't breathe on me." (covid)
What a time to pursue intimacy.
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“I never wanted to have to choose between tennis and a family. I don’t think it’s fair. If I were a guy, I wouldn’t be writing this because I’d be out there playing and winning while my wife was doing the physical labor of expanding our family.”
—Serena Williams
In Vogue’s September issue,
@serenawilliams
prepares to say farewell to tennis on her own terms and in her own words. “It’s the hardest thing that I could ever imagine,” she says. “I don’t want it to be over, but at the same time I’m ready for what’s next”
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It's actually a curse to be perceived as a person "so strong" that you need no help.
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I don't know who needs to hear this but; just because you've gotten away with 'performing well under stress' for most of your life doesn't mean you should lean into your habit of procrastinating as a personality trait.
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Having seen the destruction racist educators can wreak on impressionable BIPOC students first hand, one side effect of our current education paradigm is that parents can witness racist teachers recklessness first hand.
Parents, imagine how much you haven't seen, couldn't see...
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Can I just say how inspired I am by the young Black Actors taking their careers into their own hands by collectivizing & creating prod companies that not only support their projects but also uplifts other Black creatives; from MBJ to Issa to Lena to this young maverick ✨
Marsai!!!!! Her production company logo is so dope and sooo her!
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The bodies of our missing activists are often found in bodies of water. My heart breaks. "Activism"is not a buzzy, vapid identifier. People are out here being murdered for trying to make this world a better place.
Pay attention.
It has been confirmed that the body found in the Scioto River is Amber Evans. Our community is heartbroken and will share updates on ways to support each other following the leadership of
@OhioPJP
and Amber’s family. We love you
#AmberEvans
♥️
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